I find that this form of animation really helps me follow the narrative like no other.

In the day I was responsible for an annual compensation budget of over $2.0 billion. As we advanced the idea of performance pay we also advanced the idea of focus and control - so we did all of this wrong!

Purpose - Autonomy - Mastery are what guide us. Now if you can deal with the money as a hygiene issue - people have to have enough and it has to be fair - then you have it.

Our whole education system is based on the wrong model! Think about this for a moment.....

We control and we reward (marks) and we punish (marks). The real purpose is to label 70% as stupid. We don't focus on mastery but on ranking. We allow no autonomy.

We don't seek mastery. Take reading - the issue here is being comfortable about reading. That is the goal not the marks. That is a goal that we can all help another get to. It's not a competitive issue. It's a common goal. We all now it when we have reached it. Same with basic maths.

If we made this a common goal all the kids could help each other. Now we would have a purpose that was bigger than any one child. Now inside that we would have room for lots of autonomy.

If we shaped grades 1-3 like this - where we are all going to be able to read well by grade 3 and do core math well it might change everything.